And there we are - the Surface Pro reviews are in. Readingthroughthemall, there's clearly a common theme, and it's not particularly positive. We're a few months in now, so I think we can finally call it: Windows 8 and Surface are the wrong way to go.

The problem is tha MS knows that windows phone is a bust with little or no hope of breaking open the mobile market. That's why they chose to do windows 8 the way they did. They risked their stagnant desktop monopoly to try to leverage themselves into high growth mobile. We'll see how this plays out, so far not looking good but that desktop monopoly is hard to break.